Mr. Dan Albas at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On November 19th, 2018. See this statement in context.

November 19th, 2018 / 5:15 p.m.

Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, CPC

Thank you again, Mr. Chair.

Minister, you said earlier that the information that would be used from this pilot project would be used for analysis for policy-makers. StatsCan repackages its data for private businesses to purchase. It's an endeavour that brought in about $113 million last year. Currently, 400 people are employed to help supply businesses with government data.

My question is, do you think the demand for this repackaged data from private companies will increase once your government starts collecting this information?

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